Greene is an unincorporated village and census-designated place[2] in the western part of the town of Coventry, Rhode Island, United States.

[4] It is 2 miles (3 km) east of the Connecticut border and the same distance north of West Greenwich.

[5] It was decided to build a depot where local farmers could sell their produce to the trains heading towards Providence and Hartford.

Within a few years of opening, the Greene depot was the most important station in western Rhode Island.

Eventually, a school, church, library, and meeting hall were built, as well as a religious campground in the Greene area, where the Advent Christian Church held annual camp meetings starting in 1880 on what was previously part of the Peckham estate.

The religious campground was perhaps the most important one in Rhode Island, where every summer, camp meetings were held in the style more commonly found in the South and in the Mid-West.

[6] With the coming of the automobile in the first part of the 20th century, the railroad's importance declined greatly, and in 1969, it closed.

Rhode Island Route 117 passes through the center of the CDP, from Fairbanks Corner through Greene village, and over to Summit, eventually leading 16 miles (26 km) to Apponaug in the city of Warwick.

Rhode Island Route 102 forms the eastern border of the CDP; it leads north 7 miles (11 km) to Clayville in the town of Scituate and south the same distance to Interstate 95 in the town of West Greenwich.